Dave Jones's blog

Once again, thanks to everyone for their help tonight.  Well done to all the swimmers, another great evenings racing.  Hope you all enjoyed it. The results are available in the members area <click here>. Also thanks to those people who let me know beforehand that they wouldn't be able to swim.  It really helps with the organization and racing.  Still a few that didn't let me know, hence the empty lanes.

Here are the results of this evenings club sprints.  Well done to all swimmers, some superb races and times.  Also available in the club members area.

The Club Sprints will take place on the 27th June & 11th July.  For those who don't know, this is an club event where all strokes are swum over 50m (except u/10 fly which is 25m).  Positions are given for each age group on a Heat Declared basis, i.e. all age groups are mixed up and heats seeded according to entry time.  Then the positions in each age group are determined by the times swum at the gala.  More info and an entry form are attached.

Well done to Mel on her long weekends swimming down in Millfield for the SW Regional championships.  The only youth representative from Corsham (even though she had her Team Bath hat on), she swam in 5 events, placed well in all and made the finals of the 50 fly and 100 back, finishing 7th and 6th respectively.  A superb achievement and hopefully an inspiration to our younger swimmers.

Thanks to all who participated in this years Corsham Open.  I hope you all enjoyed the weekend and got the times you were looking for.  There was some fantastic racing and a great atmosphere, congratulations.  The results are posted.

Well, in the absence of anything else, I'll file a little report.
Our A and B teams were in action last Saturday in the final round of the 2009 Summer League, both with a lot to swim for. The B team were chasing promotion whilst the A team were in a relegation battle.

I didn't get the opportunity to tell most of the swimmers how pleased and proud I was with their efforts last Saturday. This was always going to be a tough year, competing as we are against 3 very strong teams, but to do so with 14+ swimmers unavailable made it a huge ask. I especially want to mention the youngest age group, Edward, Oliver, Charles and Elliot for the boys and Hannah, Robyn, Lucy and Felicity for the girls. We made huge demands of them and I was really impressed with their attitude, commitment and their good humour.

Very please to report that at the Gloucester Open last weekend (16th/17th May), Huw Parks achieved a district qualifying time in the 100m backstroke. Huw now joins Peter Ammel (100 Fly) as our representatives at Millfield this year and we wish them well.

A Spreadsheet containing all the club records as well as the sprint and championship records is available under "Documents/Times and Results" in the members section.

Hint: Use the selector at the top of the columns to select the records you want to view, otherwise there are a lot of numbers to look at. E.g. you can select "14" at the top of the Age column to view all the records for 14 year olds only. Select "Free" and "100" to view all the 100m Freestyle records.

Have fun

Dave

A small, but enthusiastic team of Corsham swimmers attending the recent Open meet in Salisbury. The relaxed atmosphere and excellent pool coupled with a good medal haul and numerous PBs made for an enjoyable day for all. For the girls, Elizabeth Harris struck Silver three times in the 50m Backstroke, 100m IM & 50m Free, before finally grabbing a well deserved Gold in a thrilling 50m Fly.